Synonyms for rejection
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Noun
1. Repudiation — the act of rejecting
repudiation, denial, refusal, renunciation, abandonment, disapproval, disallowance, objection, declination, exclusion, prohibition, non-consent, dissension, repulse, abnegation, turndown, abjuration, nonassent, nonacceptance, nonapproval
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Definitions
- n. 1
The act of rejecting.
My offer was met with rejection
Forms
- Plural
- rejections → repudiations, denials, refusals, renunciations…
Example sentences
- denial There are five stages of grief. Stage one: denial.
- refusal What she wants to say just adds up to a refusal.
- renunciation Jesus predicted Peter's renunciation of him.
- elimination Edmundo ordered the immediate elimination of Rima.
- rebuff Tom didn't expect Mary to rebuff his advance.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| rejection | steady | |
| denial | steady | |
| refusal | falling | |
| renunciation | steady | |
| repudiation | steady | |
| elimination | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- nix1
- 6 letters
- denial3, rebuff2
- 7 letters
- refusal3, repulse2
- 8 letters
- turndown2
- 9 letters
- objection3, exclusion3, nonassent
- 10 letters
- discarding3, dissension3, abnegation4, abjuration
- 11 letters
- elimination5, prohibition4, abandonment4, disapproval4, repudiation5, declination, nonapproval
- 12 letters
- renunciation5, disallowance4, rejectedness
- 13 letters
- nonacceptance
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (denial3 = 3 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- refus
- Italiano
- disapprovazione
- Deutsch
- Verweigerung